Podcast: A Montana Trout Mystery, with Wade Fellin

This week my guest is guide and lodge owner Wade Fellin of Big Hole River Lodge. Wade is on the vanguard of trout health in Montana, particularly in the Big Hole Valley, and they have been seeing trout die at the time of year when water temperatures . . .

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Wednesday Wake-Up Call: 07.19.23

Last week, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks issued the first “hoot owl” restrictions on trout rivers in southwestern, Montana, and a few new rivers have been added since. Water temperatures on the stretch of the Lower Madison from the Jefferson River to . . .

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Pro Tips: Damsels for Big Summer Trout

I thought I’d found a pond full of basking carp. Its surface lay flat and still under the blazing mid-morning Montana sun, and I spotted the big swirls and sloshes and boils from a hundred yards . . .

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Video: How to Tie the NZ Trico

By midsummer, most of the best insect hatches are over–especially in the East and Midwest–but dry-fly anglers still have Tricos to look forward to. These tiny mayflies can produce excellent action, but it’s tough to see such tiny flies on the surface, . . .

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Announcing the Latest Batch of Orvis Cover Dog Winners!

It’s time again to announce our Orvis Cover Dog Contest winners, who will appear on our 2023 Fall and Winter Dog Books. These photos were chosen from among more than 8,000 entries this contest season, resulting in what are always fun and beautiful . . .

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Eye on Orvis–Orvis Dads #3: Wayne Rock

Wayne Rock began his career with the company seventeen years ago, and since then he’s worked a myriad of roles, in various locations. He started out by spending nine years at our Service Center in Roanoke, Virginia—two years as a Customer Service . . .

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Video: How to Secure Foam on Top of a Hook

Patterns that feature large pieces of foam—grasshoppers, Chubby Chernobyls, and the like—present a challenge for tiers: the foam wants to rotate around the hook shank. In this week’s One-Minute Tying Tips video from Tightline Productions, Tim . . .

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